Networking at SXSW Interactive

I was able to get the word out about The Echo Chamber to a lot of people who have "social capital" in the blogosphere. My primary audience was the panelist participants, but I also found myself in many engaging conversations with people in the hallways and parties.

I was able to met a lot of great people out at SxSW, and I'm still digesting all of the different panels and post-conference Activist Technology discussion that I was invited to attend. It was a day-long gathering of activist digerati designed to build community and bridge the gap between Activists and Technologists.

I took a ton of written notes throughout the week, and I am trying to figure out the most efficient and quickest way to manage this knowledge for myself -- as well as disseminate it if possible. I'm hoping to go over my notes, make some audio recordings, and then some do some blog posts about it.

I usually sat near the front row of the sessions and asked some pretty specific and detailed questions to the panelists.

My main action item now is to make list of intentions and desires to send out to the universe.

I need to make a snappy screencast where I explain my New Media Ecosystem. I took this busy flowchart to the conference and explained it to a lot of people in the hallways and parties, and I think that most people got the essence of it when I was able to talk to them face-to-face. But I need to overcome the limitations of text and long blog posts for conveying complex meaning. The spoken word holds people's attention so much more effectively than my writing.

There are a number of people who offered to link to my project, but there isn't really a good place on my site that gives a snappy and engaging overview just yet. I intend to expand my multimedia toolset by doing some podcasts, screencasts and more graphics and flowcharts.

It'll help give the project some attention while I'm still on the radar screen of the SxSW Interactive Conference participants.

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